Will Sparrow's Road

In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road in this adventurous coming of age story, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe of "oddities," a found family of misfits including a dwarf and a cat-faced girl, holding himself apart from the "monsters" and resolving to be on guard against f...